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Create Your Own Mud Battery / Bouw Je Eigen Modderbatterij

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What do need to build a mud battery? Scissors, mud, a bowl, electricity wires (preferably in two different colors), carbon fibre cloth, gloves, stripping pliers, a multimeter to measure the current and safety glasses, just to be sure.

Weave the part with the longer stripped copper wire through the carbon tissue. Make a small hook at the end to keep it in place. You now have made an electrode! Do this again with the second piece of wire and the other piece of carbon cloth.

Get some mud from a nearby place, like from a pond, canal of whatever. Drain out excess water. Fill your bowl with a layer of about half an inch of mud. If you use dryer ground, please wet your finger to press the mud to the bottom.

Put a sheet of carbon cloth with the wire on the first layer of mud. This will be the minus electrode. Press firmly to make contact between the tissue and the mud. Then fill up the bowl with some more mud. Ensure that there are no tiny air bubbles in the mud.

Step 8: Second Electrode / Tweede Elektrode

The second sheet of carbon cloth you put on top of the mud. This forms your plus side. You battery is now ready! The only thing you will have to do is wait a couple of days when it starts working. With a multimeter you can measure the electricity that it produces.